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'IOALL WIIOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Beit known that I, LUTHER C. KEELER, of Montrose, in the county of Susquehanna, and Stateof Pennsylvania,vhave invented a new and useful Device for Holding Sample Shoes; and that the following description, taken in connection with 'the accompanying drawings, hereinafter referred to, forms a full and exact specicatien oi' the saine, wherein Iphave set forth the nature and principles of my said improvement, by which niy invention may be distinguished from all others of. a. similar class, together with such partsas I claim, and desire vto have secured to me'by Letters Patent.

This, inventionrelates to a new and improved device for holding sample shoes tolboxes, and in conspicuous places in windows, showcases, etc., and is designed to 'admit of the ready application of the shoe to the box or other plaeerequired, as well as its ready detachment or removal therefrom. In the accompanying sheet of IFigure 1 is a detached front or face view of my invention.

Figure 2, an end view of the same. V

Figure 3,a section of the same taken in the line :u x, iig. 1. p

Figure 4, a front or face view of the same applied to a box and having asample shoe tted in it.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts. I A represents a stirrup or plate, which may be constructed of-sheet metal and bent inA such a manner as to admit of the lower part of the shoe being fitted in it. (See more particularly figs. 2 and 4.) This stirrup or plate A has two sheet-metal supports B B attached to it, which diverge from each other from their lower to their upper ends, as shown clearly in iig. 1, and the upper en'ds of the supports are bent downward to form hooks a a, to fit or catch over the upper edge of a box, G, as shown clearly in fig. 2. On one ofthe supports B there is iitted a clasp, D, which is simply a curved arm having a'plate,i"b, secured to one end of it, to 'form a loop, which is fitted on the support Band which may be shoved up and down thereon, and retained at any desired pointby friction only. This clasp encircles the rear part of the shoe above the counter in the heel, and serves to support the shoe on the stiirup or plate A, as will be fully understood by referring to tig. 4.

By this simple device rit will be seen that the shoe may be readily fitted to the box and detached therefrom, and the holder may be suspended in a window or show-case, and the shoe fitted in it with the greatest facility.

The clasp D may be adjusted higher or lower on the support B, to suit the size of the shoe; v I would reina-rk that one standard may be used instead of two, if desired, but I consider two preferable, as they would keep the holder more steady or drm in position, preventing 'it from swinging or oscillating when suspended in position. The holder may be constructed of sheet metal, Wire, or other substances. The supports B B may be made any length, and the loops a et inserted through holes made in the box, to support and keep the shoes in position.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new, and. desire to secure by Letters Patent, as a new article or-manufaeture- Y A shoe-holder constructed as described, consisting of the standards B B', one or more, provided with hooks a, stirrup or plate A, and clasp D, substantially as herein shown and described.

The above speciucation of my invention signed by me this 6th day of March, 1867. p n

LUTHER c. KEELER.

Witnesses:

' WM., F. MeNAMAnA,

J: A. SERVICE. 

